This is my answer at: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31552082/vsix-installer-signaturedescription-could-not-be-created-for-the-signature-algo/ to the question on why some extensions fail to install at RC (Release Candidate) versions of Visual Studio 2015, showing error “SignatureDescription could not be created for the signature algorithm ...

Following are class diagrams for Hotspotizer’s C# code, as is currently at 4 Aug 2015 at its refactored version I maintain in my fork at GitHub (http://github.com/birbilis/hotspotizer). The respective diagram (.cd) files for Visual Studio are available in the code repository at the various subfolders: Tagged: Authoring, Automation, Class, ...

Copying here those comments of mine at a discussion on the GraphX project: https://github.com/panthernet/GraphX/issues/21 describing the source code (physical) folder structure and the Visual Studio solution (virtual) folder structure I’ve been using at ClipFlair and other multi-platform projects. —— looking at the ...

Have again suggested this long before to Visual Studio team, but since Visual Studio 2013 has a “Send a Frown” feature, I’ve sent it again with some suggestions on how it could be implemented. I need some clever replace in cases like that one shown in the screenshot below, where I have the implementation of […]

Just sent this to the Visual Studio team via the “send a frown” button: pressing CTRL+SPACE after "buttonDropDown." (see screenshot) seems to give me suggestions of members of buttonDropDown that aren’t a fit to the Rectangle object that I’m trying to assign to I suppose you do so since I could eventually drill down into ...

Recently, to save myself sometime after having renamed some interfaces/classes in the ClipFlair project sourcecode, I right-clicked one of the class diagrams (.cd files) in it at Visual Studio’s “Solution Navigator” (this is an enhanced Solution Explorer addon) and using “Open With…” I opened up the diagrams with the XML editor to do a rename-all ...

Project Linker is a Visual Studio Extension that “helps to automatically create and maintain links from a source project to a target project to share code that is common to Silverlight and WPF”. In ClipFlair, where I have shared code between a Silverlight and a WPF project (I guess same would be for XNA projects [...]

Following up on a note about Visual Studio 2010 crashing at my previous post, this is the XAML that crashes VS2010 when opened up in a Silverlight project: <UserControl x:Class="SilverlightApplication1.MainPage"   xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"   ...

I just had some big trouble troubleshooting the Visual Studio / XAML compiler error message: The tag XXX does not exist in XML namespace ‘clr-namespace:YYY’ It turned out this occurred because I had a Silverlight library with Assembly name X and default namespace X (at properties pane), but was using it from a demo project [...]

The other day I submitted my 1st Windows Phone 7 application via http://create.msdn.com Having registered for free as a student developer (being a PhD student on Robotics) via http://dreamspark.com I could only try my 1st app on WP7 emulator – when it gets accepted I will be able to have my WP7 phone unlocked to [...]